When used correctly, EHRs produce more accurate documentation leading to more complete coding, and ultimately, more accurate reimbursement claims, according to Sue Bowman, senior director of coding policy and compliance of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

This week’s developments include a proposed rule updating the inpatient prospective payment system, the first meeting of a federal patient safety group and a new effort to prevent the switch to ICD-10.

Philadelphia insurer Independence Blue Cross (IBC), New York University (NYU) and NYU Langone Medical Center are jointly collaborating to develop machine-learning algorithms to identify undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes in patients, according to NYU’s April 29 announcement.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will collaborate with Archimedes—a Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente innovation healthcare modeling and analytics company—to supply “unprecedented” access to synthetic CMS claims data, according to Archimedes' May 1 announcement.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 1, 2013 -- Health care reform has resulted in some of the largest scale changes to the way health care is delivered and funded since the 1960s, providing unprecedented access, coverage and protections for American consumers. To help people better understand the variety of choices before them, Regence has launched a new website that is designed to help consumers and businesses navigate the new health care landscape.

The true cost of emergency department (ED) services may be as much as three times the amount of longstanding federal estimates.

A new bill would not require a transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) introduced the bill dubbed the "Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013."

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) has updated its open government product, Health IT Dashboard, with 100,000 new data points.